u/LeninMeowMeow moderates a large amount of big subreddits, r/therightcantmeme, r/gamingcirclejerk, r/animememes, r/greenandpleasent (a known russian propaganda subreddit source: Center for European Policy Analysis (think Lemmygrad)) and much more.
Anyways on r/lemmy, he says that lemmy.world is right-wing and thatcherite. I reply that it is more social democratic.
I instantly get banned from the subreddits he moderates and blocked by him. I have not commented or participated in any of their subreddits before, and this is my first ever encounter with them.
Weird and concerning behaviour. I fear that tankies are taking over most left wing spaces on reddit (not that I really use reddit for politics anymore, that’s why I’m on lemmy, but for the implications to our democracies, as a non-negligible chunk of voters are politically influenced by reddit).
This sounds almost like he’s been paid to denigrate Lemmy in hopes of keeping some of the rapidly declining Reddit population from leaving… It’s clear he’s never actually used Lemmy which is way more left leaning than Reddit honestly
I’m so glad I left the corporate cesspool that Reddit has become
Reddit? Pay their mods?!
No but I agree. It’s very sus to say the right has taken over Lemmy, and then laude lemmy.ml and hexbear for their left wing positions.
Like yeah they’re… Left wing… All the way oof the cliff, denying Tiananmen Square and trying to get actual social democrats to join sketchy Chinese communist parties.
This mods take on Lemmy is either paid for or he’s a tankie.
Any Reddit super moderator who survived the Rexodus bent the knee to Spez and did not maintain closures. They valued their stance as a moderator over others more than the shit getting pulled. He absolutely would have been present for those meetings and message rooms during that time. Anyone like that is not a friend of the average user of any platform.
I didn’t know the power mod situation is that bad. I already started avoiding r/gamingcirclejerk when I saw them banning users for correcting easily disproven misinformation about the “bad people” they meme about.
The internet is getting weird. It used to be that I only had to worry about alt-right trolls. Now I have to look out for authoritarian fake leftists infiltrating and taking over my spaces. I don’t even care about leftism. I just don’t want to participate in spaces where I could get banned for arguing that communism doesn’t work.
It’s reddit, you get what you get. That’s why the majority of us stopped using it.
That therightcantmeme subreddit is absolutely full of tankies and has been for quite some time.
I still remember when they took it over. That was a weird week. Out of the blue a ton of “Stalin did nothing wrong” posts sprung up. Made it clear it was time to leave that sub after vocally calling out their bullshit.
Yeah, same. The subreddit just suddenly kicked a lot of normal mods and installed tankie mods. Used to be a fun place to dunk on regressives. Now it is run by regressive authoritarianism lovers.
And ironically enough their Stalin memes were complete shit
Should be regressivescantmeme and then they’d just be producing appropriate content for it.
Tankies gonna tank.
A reddit mod being a piece of shit? Say it isn’t so! How could this happen?
“I’m a communist, I can’t be a far right conservative!” - Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Careful if you have any Reddit alts. This particular moderator has the ban evasion filter set to the highest sensitivity on all of his subreddits (it’s a Reddit feature that flags suspected alts of banned users based on account details and device fingerprinting) and will report every case of suspected ban evasion to the admins. They normally don’t care but will look into it if a mod reports it. If you accidentally post on any of his subreddits with an alt the admins will permanently ban all of your accounts.
Thanks for the warning but he doesn’t mod the subreddit this discussion was in. I replied with an alt because he blocked me so I couldn’t see his messages anymore.
That’s because only yes bots are allowed on reddit now! No seriously, insane amount of generated and copied content.
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